Oct 31 2024 … Following Jesus To Glory

Oct 31 2024 … Following Jesus To Glory

Devotional Song: ... GO TO THIS LINK ...  

… Please take time to hear  Clay Crosse, Bob Carlisle, and BeBe Winans , with music and lyrics, singing I Will Follow Christ, making sure all know Whom we follow in life. 

  

Highlight Verse: … Mark 12:17 [NLT] …  

17 Then Jesus said to them, “Pay to Caesar the things that belong to Caesar. Pay to God the things that belong to God.” They were surprised and wondered at Him.  

… Jesus calls His followers to render to Caesar what is his and to God what we are called to do for Him.  

Highlight Passage (in context)  … Mark 12:13-17  … [NLT] … USE THIS LINK …  

… The religious leaders, trying to trap Jesus in His words; but He declares to the people pay to Caesar what is His and to God what is due to the Lord.                                                                  

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Reference Passage: …  Matthew 7:21-23 … [NLT] … USE THIS LINK …  

…  Jesus teaching His followers what it takes in obedience to follow our Lord.               

Reference Passage: … Luke 9:23 [NLT] …  USE THIS LINK …  

…Jesus to His followers, one must be willing to give up his desires and take up his cross to follow Jesus. 

Reference Passage: … John 10:27  [NLT] … USE THIS LINK … 

… Jesus, like being a “Good Shepherd,” declares that when His followers hear His voice they will come to Him like sheep to their shepherd  .                                                    

Reference Passage: … Romans 12:1-2 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK …   

…  The Apostle Paul teaches that born again Christians will become living sacrifices to follow the Lord, avoiding the ways of the world.   

Reference Passage: …1Corinthians 11:1 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK …   

…   The Apostle Paull confidently calls fellow Christians to follow his ways because he (Paul) imitates Christ. .  

Reference Passage: … 1Peter 1:14-16 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK …  

…   Peter quotes from Lev. 11:44-45, calling on those who follow God’s ways to be holy as God is holy and to follow God’s ways rather then our own ways. 

My Devotional Journal: Today’Our Daily Bread  Author, Tim Gustafson -  AT THIS LINK  -  uses a famous Peanuts cartoon (SEE PHOTO) where Linus says, “There are three things I have learned never to discuss with people . . . religion, politics, and the Great Pumpkin!”< to illustrate how Christian’s should be careful when we follow Jesus, i.e., to follow HIS WAYS and to avoid following our own desires or those of the world. 

And if my readers have taken in the linked song and meditated on the Scriptures above, I’m praying that we’re all doing all we can to seek and to follow God’s ways and to avoid taking the ways that our selfish desires or the world would call us to follow.  Are you with me … as we choose to follow the Lord today?                     

My THANKFULNESS: ... Oh, Abba Father, thank You, King Jesus, … for being my “GPS” again today.               

My Prayer Today:  Oh Abba Father, ... King Jesus, ... . I’m praying that those who read with me here will join me to CHOOSE to follow You again today, Lord.       …  Amen

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